Gordon Keller School of Nursing records

Collection

Identifier: MS-1994-06

No requestable containers
Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection contains records of the Gordon Keller School of Nursing from 1940-1969. Records include scrapbooks, photographs, slides, newsletters, and newspaper clippings. The collection also contains the minutes, dated 1940-1951, of the Gordon Keller Alumnae Association. Due to their fragile nature, scrapbooks were disbound and the pages placed in folders.

Dates

Created: 1910-1972
Other: Date acquired: 05/00/1994

Creator

Gordon Keller School of Nursing (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

None. The contents of this collection may be subject to copyright. Visit the United States Copyright Office's website at http://www.copyright.gov/ for more information.

Biographical or Historical Information

Gordon Keller Memorial Hospital, which opened in 1905 on Lafayette Street in Tampa, Florida, was named for Gordon Keller, a native of Georgia who moved to Tampa in 1883. In 1910, the School of Nursing was established. The program was absorbed by Hillsborough Community College in 1972. The hospital, which moved to Davis Islands in 1927, became known as Tampa Municipal Hospital and, in 1956, as Tampa General Hospital.

Note written by unknown

Extent

17.03 Linear Feet

20 boxes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This collection consists of scrapbooks, uniforms, photographs, slides, news clippings, textbooks, bulletins, nursing dolls, and minutes of the Alumnae Association, dated 1940-1969.